Wikimedia Commons began uploading Google Art Project paintings, despite the fact that Google considers copyrighted photos.

Google despite the fact that he did a good deed , added a spoonful of tar. Pictures of pictures are available only through Flash without the ability to download a picture. It's a shame.

Why was this done? The copyright for most of the paintings has expired due to the prescription of years . But it turns out that Google thinks very differently and answers the question “Are you on site?” As follows : “Yes. The project is protected by copyright laws around the world. But this is just outrageous. This is just an attempt on the sacred public domain ! There can be no copyright to public domain! According to the court decision in the case of the Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel , "exact photographic copies of images in the public domain cannot be protected by copyright, because they lack novelty."

Based on this decision, the well-known participant of the Wikimedia Commons Dcoetzee managed to save the images from the Google site in full resolution and some of them with a size under 100MB are already available for viewing and downloading in jpg format on Wikimedia Commons , as well as on the Internet Archive site (one photo - 3, 5 gigabytes, weak?). The photos are marked with a special PD-Art template , where the following is written:
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“This is an exact photographic reproduction of the original two-dimensional work of art. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that “accurate reproductions of two-dimensional works in the public domain are also in the public domain, and that claims to the contrary are attacks on the very concept of the public domain”. ”

I believe that Dcoetzee has once again defended the world from copywriting, which are already striving to capture even what the copyright doesn’t apply at all.

I wonder if Google or museums will do anything. The last time Dcoetzee uploaded photos from the National Portrait Gallery of the UK , she threatened him with a trial . Dcoetzee then supported the Wikimedia Foundation. You can read about this story in Wikinews . Let's see how it will be this time.

See also the discussion on Russian Wikipedia and on Wikimedia Commons .


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